Quotes About Execution

To the Aiel, it was not a war; it was an execution.

But reflection without action is ultimately as unproductive as action without reflection.

nueve de cada diez negocios fracasan, es porque se enfocan en el producto y no en toda la estructura del negocio.

The challenge is to maintain a high-level, broad perspective, understand enough details to make sensible and executable decisions, and then delegate responsibility for implementation. "Microknowledge" must not become micromanagement, but it sure helps keep people on their toes when they know that the secretary knows what the hell he's talking about. If the secretary of defense doesn't

A final, and critical, technique for implementing change is ensuring follow-through.

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

Robert asks his students how many of them can make a better hamburger than McDonald's. Most raise their hands. But the reason McDonald's is making millions and they aren't is because McDonald's is excellent at business systems.

Don't delay. Every day that you work in your business without a vision, without a plan, and without proving it works is another day that you delay your success.

The next trick was to have the discipline to actually put into action what I had learned.

The gap between promises and results is widespread and clear. The gap nobody knows is the gap between what a company's leaders want to achieve and the ability of their organization to achieve it.

Without execution, the breakthrough thinking breaks down, learning adds no value, people don't meet their stretch goals, and the revolution stops dead in its tracks. What you get is change for the worse, because failure drains the energy from your organization. Repeated failure destroys it.

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a historian named Herodotus, tells of a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king: in one year he would teach the king's favorite horse to sing hymns.

Two years ago if a vampire bothered someone I just went out and staked the son of a bitch. Now I had to get a court order of execution. Without it, I was up on murder charges, if I was caught. I longed for the good ol' days. There

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.